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As new forms of government replace repressive regimes, the perennial question arises: how to deal with the wrongdoers of the old regime? In the effort to heal and rebuild societies torn by violence, new governments and the international community have tried mechanisms ranging from criminal trials and financial restitution to public denunciation to more symbolic measures such as truth commissions. The ...

Too often dismissed as escapist entertainment or vilified as mass manipulation, popular cinema in the Third Reich was in fact sustained by well-established generic conventions, cultural traditions, aesthetic sensibilities, social practices, and a highly developed star system -not unlike its Hollywood counterpart in the 1930s. This path-finding study contributes to the ongoing reassessment of Third ...

German Nuremberg Law teaching chart that distinguishes the hierarchal difference between German-blooded individuals, Jews, and those in between, distributed in 1936. The chart separates individuals into three “races”: German-Blooded, Jews, and Mischling (part Jewish) based on their grandparent’s race. Mischling are further broken down into two grades: first class, those who are half-Jewish (two Jewish ...

Includes individual files on hundreds of German companies. The records are organized by industrial sector and contain mainly public documents, such as company reports, stock offers, or invitations to board meetings. There are also many files referring specifically to the activities of the Deutsche Bank, including the personal correspondence of leading executives. Key sections also include the records ...

The Arnold Hartmann correspondence documents Hartmann’s efforts to help his Breslau cousins flee Germany during the Holocaust and either join their relatives who had already emigrated to Shanghai, Montevideo, or La Paz or immigrate to the United States. Hartmann’s correspondents include his cousins Philipp and Regine Hartmann in Breslau; their older daughter Meta and her husband Bruno Oszlowski who ...

Compared to the numerous books and articles on the Third Reich, few address its material culture, and fewer still discuss the phenomenon of Nazi memorabilia. This is all the more surprising given that Nazi symbols, so central to sustaining Hitler's movement, continue to live long after the collapse of his 12-year Reich. Neither did Nazi ideology die, far-right populists would like to see the swastika ...

Emphasizes the relevance of the Holocaust for the contemporary world, and the responsibility of the West, especially of the British government, for allowing Germany to build up its military strength and carry out aggressive policies which made the extermination of the Jews possible. Describes the "Final Solution" from 1942 on, and how Jewish refugees were prevented from reaching Palestine and bombing ...

Chronicles the history of the Final Solution in Eastern Galicia (Western Ukraine): pogroms by Ukrainians in June 1941; massacres by the Einsatzgruppen throughout 1941; deportations to Bełżec in March-December 1942; more massacres after Belzec closed down. In the interim, Jews were partially ghettoized; those who were fit were sent to forced labor camps, where most died. Medical personnel and workers ...

Orders, ordinances, reports, registers, correspondence, questionnaires and minutes of the Provincial Chief Officer of the State Police in Kielce. Included are registers of crimes, police reports, opinions and instructions, photos of criminals from the register of the State Police, reports of the chief officers of Major Security Organizations in Poland, personnel lists of the State Police in Kielce ...

Contains copies of some of the volumes of annually published financial reports and/or annual financial plans about subjects including business construction and health care from 1933 to 1943, produced by the Hauptverwaltung Berlin (Main Administration of Berlin). Also includes recommendations concerning the elimination of Jewish, Marxist, and pacifist books from the public library of Berlin (1933). ...